SpeedBack ~ Malcolm Agnew ~ Southern Illinois Salukis ~ 5090/203

I've come to believe that any HalfBack that doesn't bring a Passing Game element to the BattleField is...incomplete.

Hence, the term "FlexBack" ~ although quite cool, I believe!! ~ short-circuits the Evaluation Process.

As to how I break them down, I expect that the terms are pretty self-explanatory:

PowerBacks ~ HalfBacks who do their best Work between the Tackles..SpeedBacks ~ HalfBacks who do their best Work outside the Tackles.

The PowerBack prototype would be about 5115/220 or so.The SpeedBack prototype would be about 5010/200 or so.

Those are gross oversimplifications, of course, and many HalfBacks will manifest Attributes of both styles. Indeed, Power and Speed ~ better yet: Agility ~ are crucial to the Success of either kind of HalfBack. But I believe that it advances the discussion and better serves my Fellow FootBall Fanatics if I make an effort to distinguish between types.

This is how I break things down, when evaluating all HalfBacks:Power: Above all: Core Power. Upper body Power is important, but lower body Power, from the Knees to the Ribs, is absolutely crucial. An HalfBack's Capacity to break Tackles is more about Core Power than anything else.

Agility: Launch Velocity, Fluidity, Acceleration, and Ricochet. Long Speed is all well and good, but at the end of the day, it is Gravy. What wins Championships is Moving The Chains. And Moving The Chains is accomplished far more consistently by the guys who exhibit the Agility ~ and the Focus ~ to consistently pick up 5 and sometimes 10 Yards at a time.

Blocking: Having an HalfBack who doesn't Block effectively is like having 10 Men on the Field of Battle. Most HalfBacks just coming out'f College are mediocre Blockers, but this is a crucial Aspect of the Game that they'll need to master.

Receiving: Whether he be a PowerBack or a SpeedBack, an HalfBack that can effectively present a genuine Threat in the Passing Game dramatically increases his Team's Options on any given Play. The more dynamic the Threat, the more valuable to'is Team on the Field of Battle, whether he's just slipping out'f the BackField or splitting out Wide.Broken down into SubCategories, it'd go something like this:Power

* Core Power is most of it. Tyrannosaurus Rex would've made an Hell of an HalfBack.* Torso Power doesn't hurt, though.

Agility

* Launch Velocity* Fluidity* Acceleration* Ricochet* Long Speed

Processing Speed

* That ethereal Capacity to foresee and envision Lanes developing before they actually do.

Receiving: Exceptional and potentially Extraordinary. Mediocre Hands and mediocre Route Running, but his Extraordinary Agility, both in Route Running and in Navigating after the Catch, translate into extremely dynamic Possibilities!!

Malcolm Agnew Prospectus

Malcolm Agnew is decidedly raw in navigating the Field, both as a Runner and as a Route Runner, but he brings dynamic and explosive Potential to the Field of Battle in both regards. And while he's Short, he is by no stretch of the Imagination Small: He is Compact, Strong, Decisive, and Fearless, a Threat Between The Tackles as well as OutSide.

And while he's no Gorilla, he's got the Core Power and Motor to develop into a solid Blocker.

If he develops his Navigational Skills ~ which is of course an enormous Variable ~ he could develop, both Running the Ball and Catching it, into one of the Game's most dangerous and dynamic Dual Threats

Grateful Thanks, as always, for the crucial Work done by the folks at Draft BreakDown!!

Yank Rank: Contender ~ Sleeper!!

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4th/5th Round﻿

Please do Note: This and all Evaluations issued by this Site are produced by a ludicrously unqualified Amateur, privy to not even the tiniest fraction of Coach's Tape, Scouting Expertise, Face to Face Interviewing, Experience, or Inside Information enjoyed by the Professionals. As such, anything put forth is certainly misinformed, euphonious, derivative Tripe, and should be rejected out'f hand and indeed shunned by all men and women of Good Will!! I'm trying to discern Power, Agility, Combat Skills, and far more abstract, esoteric Concepts such as Processing Speed and Motor, and I'm trying to do so based almost entirely on a fascinating fusion of Tape, Combine Numbers, and Pro Days, while trying to attenuate my findings based on Allowances for Competition Level, Scheme, Concept, Context, and, above all: Trajectory!!

This is not is even remotely a Complaint, mind you, but rather a Warning: Caveat Emptor!!